Fruit slushes
Classic cherry slush
The seaside favourite made at home: cherry squash, water and enough sugar to slush properly.
Photo: ShakataGaNai, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Slush & frozen drink recipes
Our own recipes, sized for a typical 1.9-litre home machine and written to clear the makers’ minimum-sugar rules (Ninja: at least 4% sugar). Frozen cocktails show the mixed strength and UK units, worked out from each ingredient’s ABV and volume.
- Fruit & frozen wine
- Citrus & cocktails
- Kids’ party
- Cola, coffee & shakes
Alcohol-free
Kids’ party
Blue raspberry party slush (glycerol-free)
The bright blue party classic, made with a sugar-based, glycerol-free syrup — the right choice when young children are drinking it.
Photo: Entheta, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cola & fizzy
Cola slush
The simplest slush there is: pour in a full-sugar cola and press start. Diet cola won’t work — here’s why.
Citrus & lemonade
Fresh lemonade slush
Sharp, proper lemonade slush from lemons, sugar and water — no fizz needed.
Photo: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5
Fruit slushes
Watermelon & lime slush
Blitzed watermelon with lime and a little sugar — summery, pink and properly slushy.
Fruit slushes
Apple & strawberry frozen juice
Just juice and fruit: apple juice with strawberry purée, on the Frozen Juice setting.
Frappés & milkshakes
Iced coffee frappé
Coffee-shop style frozen coffee from strong coffee, milk and sugar, on the Frappé setting.
Frappés & milkshakes
Chocolate milkshake slush
Thick, cold chocolate milkshake made in the slush machine — no ice cream needed.
Photo: Charles Willgren from Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, CC BY 2.0
Fruit slushes
Mango lassi slush
Mango, yoghurt, milk and a hint of cardamom — a creamy frozen lassi on the Milkshake setting.
Photo: JIP, CC BY-SA 4.0
Citrus & lemonade
Virgin mojito slush
Lime and fresh mint without the rum — the alcohol-free twin of our frozen mojito.
Frozen cocktails 18+
Make the alcohol-free batches first if children are around, clean the machine, and label grown-up cups clearly. Each card shows UK units per serving.
Frozen cocktails (18+)
Vodka & lemonade slush
The classic “vodka slushie”: lemonade, a little lemon and a measured amount of vodka — about 1 unit a glass.
18+1.1units / serving
Photo: Lutoma, CC BY-SA 3.0
Frozen cocktails (18+)
Cherry vodka slush
A red, grown-up party slush: cherry slush syrup, lemonade and vodka, coloured differently from the kids’ blue batch on purpose.
18+1.1units / serving
Photo: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0
Frozen wine (18+)
Frozé (frozen rosé)
A bottle of rosé with strawberry and sugar syrup, slushed — around 1.5 units a glass.
18+1.5units / serving
Frozen cocktails (18+)
Frozen margarita
Tequila, orange liqueur and lime, diluted to slush properly — 1.5 units a glass, worked out below.
18+1.5units / serving
Photo: tjeerd (Flickr), CC BY 2.0
Frozen cocktails (18+)
Frozen mojito
White rum, lime and mint syrup — a light frozen cocktail at under 1 unit a glass.
18+0.9units / serving
Photo: Alkemieug, CC BY-SA 4.0
Frozen cocktails (18+)
Strawberry daiquiri slush
Strawberries, lime and white rum, frozen in the machine — under 1 unit a glass.
18+0.9units / serving
Photo: Sirkopl, CC BY-SA 3.0